Georg von Krosigk

Georg Adolf Friedrich von Krosigk (born June 3, 1854 in Halle (Saale) , † August 8, 1912 in Eisenach ) was a Prussian lieutenant general .

Life

origin

George was a son of the secret government and district administrator of the hall circle Kurt von Krosigk (1819-1898) and his wife ARMGARD, nee von Haeseler (1822-1891) from the house Klosterhäseler . The Prussian Lieutenant General Max von Krosigk (1846-1919) was his older brother.

Military career

Krosigk attended grammar school in his hometown and joined the Prussian Army on October 11, 1873 as a three-year-old volunteer with the 11th Company of the 1st Guard Regiment . By mid-February 1875 he was promoted to second lieutenant , in 1877/83 he was adjutant of the 2nd battalion and then regimental adjutant. As Prime Lieutenant Krosigk was commanded from May 1, 1886 to the General Staff and aggregated to the General Staff of the Army on March 22, 1887 . At the beginning of April 1887 he was assigned to the General Staff of the XIII under position à la suite . (Royal Württemberg) Army Corps in Stuttgart . In this position Krosigk mid-April 1888 Captain and the General Staff of the September 20, 1890 20th Division of Hanover added. This was followed from October 1891 to March 1893 as a company commander in the Fusilier Regiment "Queen" (Schleswig-Holsteinisches) No. 86 . He was then transferred to the General Staff of the 2nd Guard Division and advanced to major in mid-September 1893 . Transferred to the General Staff, Krosigk was commanded from March 9, 1895 to April 20, 1898 as a military attaché to the embassy in Munich . He then returned as commander of the III. Battalion in the Life Guard Infantry Regiment (1st Grand Ducal Hessian) No. 115 returned to the troop service, became lieutenant colonel in April 1900 and on May 22, 1900 with the perception of the business as chief of the general staff of the XVII. Army Corps commissioned in Danzig . After a year he was entrusted with the management of a department chief in the General Staff, before he was appointed chief of the 7th department on June 16, 1901. Then Krosigk was from July 7, 1901 to April 30, 1904 Chief of the General Staff of the XIV Army Corps in Karlsruhe . In the meantime promoted to colonel , he was then given command of the 3rd Guards Regiment on foot . On February 13, 1906, Krosigk was commissioned to lead the 4th Guard Infantry Brigade and on September 13, 1906, he was promoted to major general and commander of this brigade. As lieutenant general, he was commander of the 28th division in Karlsruhe from January 27, 1910 and received the star for the Order of the Red Eagle, 2nd class with oak leaves , on the occasion of the festival in January 1912 . Due to a serious nervous problem, Krosigk had to say goodbye and was therefore put up for disposal on April 2, 1912, with the award of the Order of the Crown, 1st class with a pension .

He was a legal knight of the Order of St. John and died unmarried in a train accident in Eisenach.

literature

• Kurt von Priesdorff : Soldier leadership . Volume 9, Hanseatische Verlagsanstalt Hamburg, undated [Hamburg], undated [1941], DNB 986919780 , pp. 75-76, no. 2752.
• Gothaisches genealogical pocket book of the primeval noble houses. 1908. Ninth year, Justus Perthes , Gotha 1907, p. 441.